“Hans In Luck: A Grimm’s Fairy Tale About The Value Of Things”
Conor Mahood reads the Grimm’s fairy tale, “Hans in Luck” and you can listen to it here.
The Fairy Tale Collection of Franz Xaver von Schönwerth
“Once upon a time … the fairytales you thought you knew had endings you wouldn’t recognise. A new collection of German folk stories has Hansel and Gretel getting married after an erotic encounter with a dwarf, an enchanted frog being kissed not by a damsel in distress but […]
I had a bad day, but you’re a jerk
We all know what we thought before we did that thing we really shouldn’t have done. We had a reason. Maybe it wasn’t a good reason, but unless we’re in an existentialist novel it wasn’t completely random and without motivation. Our understanding of why we do things is […]
The merits of space cowboys and vengeance demons
Realism has a lot to answer for. For instance, the number of raised eyebrows I’ve received when recommending tv shows like Battlestar Galactica, Firefly, or Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Even when I talk about them in terms of artistic merit, interesting narrative structure and social relevance, more often […]
The Cultural Gutter 